Hi!
I went to the city hall today to change my address and came across this: https://i.ibb.co/vCbJc6Ff/IMG-3286.jpg. Yes, there must be someone at city hall whose job is to sit there all year highlighting hundreds of papers like this by hand, instead of just using the highlight feature in a text editor 😅
There are also those tax payment slips I get every year. Because my name is too long, someone manually writes the two missing characters by hand, on all five copies, twice each. I can only imagine how many hours are spent fixing this for thousands of foreign residents, instead of simply fixing it at the root cause by adjusting the layout of the document to fit for longer names.
Do you know of other examples of extremely manual, time-consuming tasks that would have been probably automated/removed decades ago in most other countries?
by bakura10